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Actor: Straight Outta Compton. At five years old, all Marcus wanted to become was Superman. When he realized that couldn't happen, he decided taking Karate lessons was the next best thing. Marcus went on to earn a black belt in Karate, but along the way he began developing a love for various martial art forms.
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In this full-length interview, actor R. Marcos Taylor (Suge Knight from "Straight Outta Compton") takes the VladTV viewers on a trip down memory lane as he r...
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Biography. At five years old, all Marcus wanted to become was Superman. When he realized that couldn't happen, he decided taking Karate lessons was the next best thing. Marcus went on to earn a black belt in Karate, but along the way he began developing a love for various martial art forms.
R. Marcus Taylor. Actor: Straight Outta Compton. At five years old, all Marcus wanted to become was Superman. When he realized that couldn't happen, he decided taking Karate lessons was the next best thing.
- Dr. Dre
- Snoop Dogg
- Tupac Shakur
- M.C. Hammer
- The D.O.C.
- Maybe Even Kendrick Lamar?
Co-founder of the label, Dre also released his solo material under the label's auspices, including The Chronic.
When Snoop "Doggy" Dogg, as he was then known, first came onto the scene in the early ’90s, he was known as something of a protege of Dre (he was featured on the older rapper's first solo single, "Deep Cover"). He soon outpaced his mentor; his debut Doggystyle, which came out in 1993 and includes "Gin and Juice," achieved record sales beyond The Ch...
Tupac Shakur — 2Pac — makes a brief appearance in Straight Outta Compton, and he would return to the forefront of the west-coast rap scene after the film's ending. 2Pac had perhaps as much influence as N.W.A. themselves, and he cut a controversial figure in the rap world. His highly publicized murder remains unsolved. Knight, tragically, was drivin...
Hammer signed to Death Row pretty late in the game — not until 1995, and even then, he didn't release his album via the label. He appeared on tracks alongside some of Death Row's stars, and had a particularly close relationship with Tupac Shakur (he included several 2Pac-penned tracks on his 1999 album Family Affair ). Hammer left the label after S...
One of the creative minds behind N.W.A., The D.O.C. (played by Marlon Yates, Jr. in Straight Outta Compton) was also one of the forces in the creation of Death Row. Unfortunately, he parted ways with the label in 1995due to creative differences.
Suge Knight told BET that artists out of Compton are still, at their core, Death Row artists. He cited Kendrick Lamar as one such rapper — "Kendrick know, anybody from Compton, that’s pretty much saying they’re a Death Row artist," he said. "They mimicked their stuff off of the blueprint I laid down." It might be an egotistical claim, but west coas...
Aug 14, 2022 · He revealed how much he was bullied as a result of his father being the mayor of their small New Jersey town. Taylor also recounted learning martial arts as a kid and putting someone in the ...
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Apr 27, 2018 · In 2015’s hit biopic “Straight Outta Compton”, R. Marcos Taylor stepped into the role of the fearsome hip-hop record producer Suge Knight, along with reprising the role in “Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge, and Michel’le”.
